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• Zimbabwe will use fingerprint ID technology for its 2018 general elections

  Zimbabwe's government has announced that it has awarded and signed the contract for the supply of the fingerprint biometric identity solution with American company, Ipsidy. The de-duplication hardware and software solution to be supplied by Ipsidy will include an Automated Fingerprint ...

  • iAfrikan News

• Egypt now has a WhatsApp hotline for reporting fake news

  Egypt has announced a new hotline for citizens to report fake news. Launched on Monday, 12 March 2018, the hotline will run on WhatsApp and will allow to citizens to report news that aims to "to endanger the nation’s security or public interests." The announcement was made through ...

  • iAfrikan News

• Sierra Leone didn't really use blockchain in their election

  It was widely reported in the media that 'Sierra Leone has become the first country in the world to run blockchain-powered ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Got questions for the builder of the largest farmer-to-farmer network? Kenny Ewan is joining us on TNW Answers

  What are the most pressing problems farmers face today, and how can a peer-to-peer network solve them? What can a farmer in Uganda learn from one in Kenya? What potential does emerging technologies like machine learning and the blockchain have for improving the global ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• The McFly project wants to launch flying taxis on the blockchain in Nairobi

  The McFly project has announced that they are in the process of setting up infrastructure for their autonomous flying car taxi service in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi will be part of the 23 cities around the world where the Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) urban flying taxis service ...

  • iAfrikan News

• Sierra Leone is the first country to run a blockchain-powered election

  In what is a first not only for Afrika but the world, the country used a blockchain solution to tally, and provide proof of, the recently held elections in the country. The blockchain solution used was developed by a Switzerland based voting technology company, Agora. During the ...

  • iAfrikan News

• Designing Wakanda: An interview with Black Panther’s production designer

  Note: This article contains a few spoilers from the Black Panther movie. When this article was originally published, Black Panther was on the second day of its opening weekend in Chinese cinemas. Before opening in China on Friday, the Marvel Studios movie directed by Ryan Coogler ...

  • Tefo Mohapi

• To ensure stability, Facebook will “help” Nigeria with its upcoming general elections

  Facebook will be helping Nigeria with its upcoming 2019 presidential elections. This comes after a team from Facebook, led by Ebele Okobi (Facebook's Public Policy Director for Afrika) visited and met with Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to explore various ...

  • iAfrikan News

• Blockchain could keep child-mined cobalt out of our phones

  Reuters is reporting that there's a pilot of a blockchain solution that is underway to track cobalt from when it is mined ...

  • iAfrikan News

• 'China's gift to Africa': How China spied on the African Union via donated computers

  For a period of 5 years, China continued to spy on all electronic communications at the African Union's headquarters in Addis ...

  • iAfrikan News

• Kenya’s push for nuclear power rests on false premises

  Kenya wants to go nuclear. Since 2012, Nairobi has been talking the talk and walking the walk. It has engaged the International ...

  • The Conversation

• Developing countries need to wake up to the risks of new tech

  Technological advances associated with the fourth industrial revolution – including artificial intelligence – allow the ...

  • The Conversation